These patrols were similar to militias and were made up of white men who were obligated to serve for a set period. The patrols apprehended slaves outside of plantations, and they raided homes and ...

In the antebellum period, pro-slavery forces moved from defending slavery as a necessary evil to expounding it as a positive good. Some insisted that African Americans were child-like people in ...

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge ... This University of Virginia project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the ...

The state Capitol stairs serve as a stark example of complicated work performed by a complicated man, who lived a remarkable life.